A HEART THAT SINGS

A heart that can sing?  Yep.

I didn't realize until this morning that it has been a good three weeks since a post.  There would be good reason for that delay.  My favorite holiday was celebrated and we continued to rejoice; however, The Husband's heart continued to fault.  He had heart ablation on April 20, has made it to three days after his designated week's recovery period and only had two heart rates since ablation over 99 and they weren't much over 99 so I continue to rejoice.  I will spare you the not so fun part of this heart episode.  

Yesterday at church the choir sang what is right now my favorite medley song.  It had those old Southern gospel songs of "When The Roll is Called up Yonder", "Do Lord", "I'll Fly Away", "What a Day That will Be", "Until Then", and "The King is Coming".  I love all those songs, some more than others.  They remind me of heaven and that's a very happy thought.   

My favorite song in the group is "Until Then".  It says, "...but until then my heart will go on singing.  Until then with JOY, I'll carry on.  Until the day my eyes behold that city, until the day God calls me home."  That song gets me teary every time.  Every. Single. Time.  

It made me consider that I've been so bogged down with worry and fear (which I talk about on this blog regularly and yes, I say there's no need for it, but alas I admit my sin), that singing just hadn't been going on in my heart.  Then the other day I caught myself humming along as I did stuff here at home.  And more than that, I noticed I was humming.  It somehow gave me energy and peace that the cares of this life are not only handled by me, but noticed and handled by my heavenly Father.  As I have said this, He's got this.  Shucks, He's got everything.   

I think the best one to appreciate a singing heart is that same heavenly Father.  He loves to hear us sing in the good times, in the bad times, and all the time.  He doesn't even care if we are in tune or not.  Just sing. 

"Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and humans and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord."   Colossians 3:16

Consider....and hum a little tune.